Games like Spud's Quest
If Spud's Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bookbound Brigade, ANIMAL WELL and Iconoclasts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humorous and charming world, metroidvania style exploration and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Spud's Quest: Spud's Quest is an adventure game that draws its inspiration from the classic games of old, most notably the Dizzy, Zelda, and Metroid series. Help Spud and his friend Prince Charming on a journey to uncover four ancient elemental essences that have the power to remove a curse upon the royal family.

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Steam players who put hours into Spud's Quest also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Bookbound Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Spud's Quest.
Top pick for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Spud's Quest.
Second-strongest match for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Spud's Quest.
Ranked #4 for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Hob
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Spud's Quest.
Ranked #5 for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with Spud's Quest.
Ranked #6 for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spud's Quest.
Ranked #7 for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Spud's Quest.
Ranked #8 for Spud's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spud's Quest at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action with Spud's Quest.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spud's Quest.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spud's Quest.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spud's Quest.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Spud's Quest.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Spud's Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Transformice
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spud's Quest.
Transformice is an MMO platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese! Will the almighty Shaman help you or just ruin everything? Millions of levels, hectic physics, skill trees, and more importantly... hats!
You Have to Win the Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
NaissanceE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spud's Quest.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
BEEP
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spud's Quest.
A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.
Teeworlds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer game, available for all major operating systems. Battle with up to 16 players in a variety of game modes, including Team Deathmatch and Capture The Flag. You can even design your own maps!
The Desolate Hope
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Spud's Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Spud's Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with Spud's Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spud's Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Spud's Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Frequently asked about Spud's Quest
- How much does Spud's Quest cost?
- Spud's Quest is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Spud's Quest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spud's Quest are Bookbound Brigade, ANIMAL WELL, Iconoclasts.
- Who developed Spud's Quest?
- Spud's Quest was developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and published by Clickteam.
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